Talk:List of places in Afghanistan

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How can a country of 16,000,000 people have so many "cities"? There's over 500 beginning with "S" alone! Some of these places must have a population of about 20. And surely there's a standard transliteration... seven names for one city is just too much. Grutness|hello? 09:02, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

It seems like most of the links that lead to existing articles lead to completely unrelated articles, e. g. Ahmadabad, it should be written like Ahmadabad, Afghanistan. 193.171.121.30 20:53, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

We need a minimum population to be on this list. Does 20,000 people sound around right? (rough cut off) Some of the really small towns might have no information though. Assume thoughs are unimportant? This list is quite out of hand and I think it has the most red links in all of Wikipedia! --Banana04131 00:25, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

I think this "list" is beyond hope and irrelivant List of cities in Afghanistan is much more helpful. I've started the VFD process. Please take a look and vote if you were involved.

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[edit] pick a name and stick with it

One purpose of the list, is to give a standard wiki article name in a red-link. Its absurd to have two or three community names, each with its own article name. One would not (should not) create an article for each spelling of a community. Some "alternate names" are disambig articles. You should never point to a disambig article. You should also bypass re-directs. Somebody who knows the most common name, should de-link the lessor names. Some personal judgement has to be exercised here, if the list is to be of any value. Do keep showing alternate names, but un-linked.

Here's a puzzling case: "Aba" and "Abeh" are apparently the same place. "Aba" is a disambig article. "Abeh" re-directs to the disambig article. There is no actual article on the community, but they don't appear as "red-links", so nobody would realize an article is missing without clicking on it. The entry should instead have a red-link to "Abeh" or "Aba, Afghanistan". Pick one, and stick with it. --rob 14:10, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, that was me. I think you are right. Bubamara 23:20, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Article Size

Since this article is HUGE, I suggest removing the brackets from names without an article. There is no sense in having a page full of red links. Only keep brackets if the place has its own article. Acetic Acid 20:15, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

Ah, thank you. This version doesn't freeze my computer up. :P But, I still don't see the point of having red links everywhere. Is this a reason for it? Acetic Acid 00:50, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Shir Khan?

Is there also a place called Shir Khan? Because Shir Khan is a person . . . Bubamara 02:13, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Article length

I feel like the article with all those place names is unusable. Like I said, the signal to noise ratio is dismal (ok, I actually said it was too high which is dumb, but you get the idea). It would be much different if this were a list of all the notable places in Afghanistan. I don't feel strongly enough to get into a revert it back and I don't know enough to intelligently pare down the list. Does anyone have a compromise suggestion? - Bubamara 09:28, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

This is a typical case of systemic bias. We have articles on every locality, no matter how small, in the United States. We're well on the way to seeing the same in Australia, Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom. There's clearly a precedent for having an article on every locality - just because it is in the third world is not a reason to exclude it from Wikipedia. We already have a list of all the particularly important places in Afghanistan; List of cities in Afghanistan. This, however, serves another - and I would say much more important - purpose.
It is true, though, that this article is very long, and does need quite a bit of work at present. The sensible alternative, however, is not to delete it, but divide it up into provinces, as has been done everywhere else in the world - and then fix the links that point to places they shouldn't. Ambi 10:27, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
I totally agree. I think it's fantastic that we have this list. Does anyone know where it came from? It would be helpful in starting to do the necessary work. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 16:20, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of places

Shouldn't this be moved to "List of places in Afghanistan"? It's a list, after all -- Gurch 17:19, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposal to reduce length of article

The following are politically, geographically or economically notable places in Afghanistan. Please, the article clearly includes more irrelevant places than notable places. Let's get rid of all the places without an article. --71.200.63.193 18:10, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

No. This isn't "list of cities in Afghanistan". It is "list of places in Afghanistan". All of these places potentially warrant articles. Rebecca 08:57, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
Where did this list come from in the first place? Genuine Afghan towns are as notable as British or American ones, but how do we know these places actually exist? They aren't referenced, and I think vandals have added some as "amusing" uses of slang words... check the logs for Bum, Afghanistan [1]. Moyabrit (talk) 21:25, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ting?

Someone needs to disambiguate the link to Ting in this list. Note that Ting has no mention of a place in Afghanistan. The article name (perhaps Ting (Afghanistan)?) should be agreed upon, and added as a redlink both here and at Ting. Thanks. --Tkynerd 13:02, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

I went ahead and disambiguated the link, pointing it to Ting, Afghanistan. --Tkynerd 23:54, 6 November 2006 (UTC)